Heh - you only wants to do that so you can give Dibbs a bigger beatdown :P

In other news I'm also travelling first two weeks of October - headed off to Australia for catching up with relatives time. Will still be online able, just with less regularity and with likely some gaps.

Heh - change of interrogating officer from a foppish potentially influenceable sort to a more hard-nosed bloke has forced a change in Dibbets unconventional negotional strategy.... though I think we're not too far from a smack in the head...

yeah sorry about the mixed message- I reread her description in the Shackles book and realized that she's not really a pirate though some of her deputies are. I'm sure the Shackles are full of corrupt officials, but decided to play her more as a common sailor doing her best to control alot of bored petitioners in Plumetown.

sometimes I throw an NPC out there and it fights for its own identity.

Dibbets will be flying out of Malaysia and back into Australia on 28th September and will be visiting family for a couple of weeks through to the 15th of October. While I should still be able to check in periodically it will likely cause a few interruptions and my posts may involve a little more brevity than usual.

Alright, I'll be entering Quarter grades, GMing RinCon this weekend, and out and about in NM next week (sorry to have missed you, Groom.) As Groom and Dibbs and Jim are likely scarce as well, I'd say low burner for the next week.

Despite expectations, which I hate to disappoint, but berry picking and beach combing are trouble free. Enjoy a day or two of shore leave in game if you are so inclined, boys.

I'm back in the states, but not yet home. Had a good trip, but it will good to get back home. I will try to get read-up and back in the threads over the next day or two. Should be home and up to speed by Thursday. Sorry for the posting gap.

Have returned from two weeks of sick kids and spending between two and four hours a day driving around Perth visiting family and what not. Ready, willing and able to knuckle back down to the dirt selling business.

We sold the rocks for 400gp... now the Grackles expecting a cut from 3,000gp...

hee-hee. seriously though, i'm not sure diplomacy is the best skill for haggling, though it seems to be the standard. I do think you're out to sea, so to speak, on the price without a good appraise or identify on the goods however...

I do have the buckler. And I got a dead Pirate's coat off Sentinel Islands. And there is the Sea Pact ring of swimming that is 'floating around' out there somewhere. the Groom will hold onto it if no one seems too attached to it at present.